THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, November 30, 1899.
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groceries .
STOVES & RANGES
Large Line Charter Oak Stoves.
Star Estate Ranges,
Umpire Air Tight Heaters,
Doors, Windows &, Glass,
Churns & Butter Workes,
Milk Cans,
Paints & l Oils.
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HARDWARE.
We carry the Largest Stock of
Hardware in Tillamook County.
Before buying Nails, Windows,
Doors and Sashes call and get
our prices.
We carry a First Class Stock of Groceries aud Provisions,
Canned Goods etc., which will be found complete in every line.
We want your trade and will do our best to give satisfaction in all
transactions.
We keep in stock a nice line of China, Crockery, Glass,
Tinware, etc.
CHINA & TINWARF.
& MCNAIR. Tillamook.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
NOTICE.
of point to the physical man of to-day and confined within asylums for the insane is .
make the claim that he does not equal considerably less than in either England,
To the qualified voters of Tillamook : ß L. EDDY,
France or Germany.
I the physical man of the past.
“It this connection I will say that I be You will please take notice, that a
“One of the best indications of the
So of com pa rat. veiy recent years men
Average of Human Life In
strength of a race, all things considered, lieve that the greater amount of labor general election will be held at the City
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
| have turned their attention to a science
creaing - Hearty Breakfast i which purported to gauge the rise and is the longevity of its peoples. Recently that the American is able to stand is due Hall, in Tillamook City,State ofOregon.
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there have been exhumed from the ruins in considerable part to a single cause. on the 1st Monday in December, 1899,
fall of human progress—the science of
Making Americans the
of Pompeii a number ofactuaries’ tables. The American is the breakfast eater of for the election of the following officers,
ethnology—that science which Mr. Web
Strongest People.
In these the ancient Italian insurance the world. He invariably commences to-wit :
h . cooper ,
ster defines as "treating of the different
agents had worked out carefully the ex the day with a good meal of strong
A MAYOR,
natural races and families of men.'* The
Mankind is not deteriorating. Certain
pectation of life for the people with steam producing food. Consequently
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
CITY RECORDER,
subject matter is broad enough and since
alarmists are continually crying out that
whom they did business. When the work is no drag on him and can surpass
CITY TREASURER,
the time of Mr. Webster the field of in
the human race, having reached the pin
TILLAMOOK
Italian actuaries’ tables were compared easily in results the European who com
... OREGON.
CITY MARSHALL
quiry has been broadened still more un-1
nacle of material prosperity, has lost its
with the actuaries’ tables of the in mences the day with little .but a roll and
AND
til the ethonogist of today is less than a !
hardy virtues. They admit superior ex
surance companies now doing business a cup of chocolate.
FIVE CITY COUNCILMEN.
close observer of the mental, moral and |
rp H. GOYNE,
“What do you think of the statement
cellence in individuals, but argue that the
in the United States, a remarkable con-
To serve for the term of one year and
physical qualities of the varying types of
man of today has become enervated ano
i dition was found to obtain at present, that the American people are ruining until their successors are elected and
civilized men. Such a scientist as the
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
degenerate. Thev say that he is over
i It was discovered that the expectation of their nerves by the consumption of qualified.
one indicated can speak with the author
Office: Opposite Court House,
worked and underfed. They claim that
life of the American citizen exceed by coffee, tea and tobacco?’’
The Polls to open at 9 o’clock in the
ity of the accumulate 1 knowledge of
he has become emasculated by twentieth
“It is my opinion that the tea and fore noon and continue open until 12
eleven years the expectation of the ancient
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mankind back of him, and so far as any
eentury civilization ; that he is deterio
coffee alarmists have built their houses o'clock noon, and from 1 o’clock in the
Italian.
one is capable of judging now can sit in
rating physically, mentally and morally.
“In this connection it will be of interest mostly upon a foundation of sand. It is afternoon until 4 o'clock in the after
judgment on his race.
Such a man is
0LAUDE THAYER,
These prophets of evil then go on to Prof. W. J. McGhee, the chief of the to many to know that the average ex true that the use of these beverages is moon
particularize. They point out that the United States Bureau of Ethnology, one pectation of life in the United States ex- increasing and has become almost uni G. W. S appington , 1
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
-
nf
’lnn
J-Judges
of elee
election.
long and irregular hours of labor, con of the most progressive and important i ceeds by two years the average expecta- i versal. But I am inclined to think that J ohn B arker ,
!
tion
of
life
in
England.
The
estimates
they
are
much
more
of
a
blessing
than
a
C. R. H unt .
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tinuing in many cases far into the night, of the scientific departments of the gov- [
and the high pitch to which the nervous ernment. He impresses one as might a for England exceed in turn the estimates curse to the race. In fact, I have no
T. H. G oyne ,
•
Clerks
of
election.
D. D. P ierce .
system is wrought in performing the great physician whose duty one might im for France, Germany and Italy and the doubt that the comfort, health and
(J. J. DALY,
¡OSCAR HAYTEK.
constant brain work required of the agine to be to keep his hands on the rest of Europe, taken as a whole, by longevity of the race is increased by the
Dated ’his 7th day of November, 1899.
use of coffee and to a lesser degree this
man of today, strain to the snapping pulse of the nations of the earth when about two years.
By order of the Common Council of £)ALY & HAYTER,
“Another important factor which I statement is true of tea as well.
point the vitality of the individual, and the internal fires of civilization shall
Tillamook Citv.
Tobacco and Liauor.
lead to the constant use of stimulants. burn too fiercely to warn them against must be considered with the question of
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
W. H. COOPER, City Recorder.
“As to tobacco we have no accurate
They attest these arguments by indi the fever and decay which followed in the improvement of mankind is that of
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cating the enormous total increase in instance of Greece and Rome, and which stature. It is a fact that the average data, but I have been greatelv interested
American
of
to-day
is
a
taller
man
than
in
observing
the
extent
for
which
tobacco
the consumption of liquor,coffee, tea and seems to be in progress now among the
VOBERT A. MILLER,
the average founder of this country, was used twenty or thirty years ago and
other stimulating drinks, alcoholic and French peoples.
The average Englishman of to day is comparing its use then with its use to
n on-alcoholic.
A little above the average height is
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
unable to encase himself in the armor day. Then it was the exception to find a
Tobacco also, they say is almost uni- Prof McGee, thickset, strong, broad of
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'versa’.ly used today, its consumption shoulder and erect in carriage. His head which his forel ears w ore on either side man who did not smoke at the end of
at
the
battle
of
Hastings,
Land
Titles
and
Land Office Business a
By
way
of
dinner.
Today
when
dining
I
observe
commencing with the youth and his is set squarely on his shoulders and
Specially.
noxious cigarette and continuing almost u round his temples his hair is streaked comparison it may be remarked that the that at least half of the gentlemen refuse
uninterruptedly to the brink of the with gray. Ilis forehead is square, prom American is an inch taller than the the cigars when they are passed around.
(JAMES McCAIN,
Englishman, while the Englishman in In fact, there is nothing, as far as I know,
grave.
inent and most aptly descril»ed by the
¡A. W. SEVERANCE.
turn is an inch taller than the average to indicate that the per capita consump
word
massive.
His
face
is
grave
and
These persons emphasize the point that
McCAIN & SEVERANCE,
continental.”
tion of tobacco is increasing. Moreover,
the American especially has with him kindly and in his manner he is easy and ■
I “How does the average white man I do not believe that the use of tobacco is |
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
always an insatiable desire for employ cordial.
compare with the savage in point of injurious in most instances In fact there
Prof. McGee was busy. He has been
ment of some kind. Thev sav, moreover,
strength?’’ was asked.
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are cases in which its use is positively
that he spends the time which he should that way all his life. But when he learn
beneficial.”
White Men and Savages.
devote to healthy recreation in gambling ed the writer’s mission he turned from
“Is drunkenness and the consumption
“I presume that you have in mind the
a id in wanton and riotous living, at the his desk and talked willingly.
QAVID WILEY, M.D,
of alcoholic liquors on the increase and
Quality.
Indian
and
his
traditional
superiority
in
worst; or in some recreation that calls Man at His High-Water Mark.
does
the
former
threaten
to
become
a
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
point of strength and endurance?*’ was
for the expenditure of nervous energy, at
“You want to know my conclusions
universal evil among the American peo.
Great difference is observable
ACCOUCHEUR.
the best.
Then these croakers shake about my fellow man of the present the answer. “Now, I have lived a long
pie.”
sadly their heads when they compare ' generation? You desire to find out time among the Indians If I know any
in
the
quality
of
clothing
ma
All
call
promptly attended to.
"I should sav decidedly no to any ques
the offspring of today with the ancestry whether mankind is falling back in the ; body I fancy that it is the red man, and '
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tions
of
this
kind.
We
do
not
have
to
terial. We make a feature of
of yesterday and profeap to anticipate great race or standing still on his pre I can state positively that the white '
I go far back into the history of the Anglo.
man
is
his
superior
in
every
way.
In
the
|
with horror that fast approaching dav sent pinnacle or pushing forward to an
most carefully selected 0 E. HAWKE, M.D.,
. Saxon race to find a time when drunken. the
when the effete sons of men shall univer even greater development?’’ said Prof.1 first place the white man has more of! | ness was rife. Passing over the days of
cloths, and when made up in our
sally end their existence as did those who McGee, summarizing the questions put I that quality known as bottom. The 1
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
white man can lift more, run further and i ribaldary which marked the time of excellent style it’s not at
in the days of long ago dwelt in the cities to him.
all
faster, lie can work more, can set more Charles II and the Georges in England
of Sodom and Gomorrah spoken of in
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
“Man is to-day at the high-water ____
and in the course of time and practice can I j we come to the earlier decades of the strange that our patrons are
old testament narrative.
Office:
Over
Todd’» Store.
mark of hia development «• compared ' -----------
beat the Indian
hii own games. present century. During that time in
.... — at
. any of ..is
The Worll Gets Eetter.
with the past,” continued he. “Looking Xo, on the face of the globe the white our own American congress drinking pleased.
But this is not so. Even in Paris, the forward it may safely lie predicted, in man has no equal
was the rule and almost any night num.
sea of sensuality, the capitol of crime, view of the present progress that the
“Then there is the question of athletic tiers of drunken congressmen could be
grows no worse ns the tide ot time sweeps 1.500.0110,000 of human beings who in records. Never a vear rolls round that found gathered around the gambling
on And the remainder of the world is habit the globe are making, that we are ( numberless new records are not estab- tables and in the saloons along Pennsvl-
The Tailor,
|
growing better. The human race is pro but on the eve of the development which |i4hed. As a rule the record of last year . vania avenue. Today it is the rarest
No.
88%
THIRD
STREET,
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greasing. Men are growing healthier, as far transcends that of the present ns ¡s equaled or excelled this year. We can. thing in the world that a member of the
stronger, brainier; they are larger, more the present surpasses that ol centuries not look back to anv old records. Thev . congress is seen in a case of intoxication.
fleet oi foot and strong of limb, more since.
| all
•• fall
-
PORTLAND, ORE.
far within those of the present I The spirit of this age is against over.in-
quick to think and to do; thev know
"There is a certain class of prophets . dav.
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not the athletes of the new I dulgence in strong drink. Slowly but
more, work more, accomplish more are and historians i which is continually world in competition against the Greeks | surely drunkenness aud lewdness are be
SHAVING,
better for the life that they lead today. trying to impress upon
the men of to-day
•• Olympian games at Athens, break coming things of the past.
-
-r ' i , nt • the
Contrary to the widespread and general their inferiority to their parents in nil «11 of the records "of antiquity ?
HAIR CUTTING,
In conclusion it mav be said that the
impression they are less given to the ways except those of material progress, i
I “I remember that when I was a bov an i peoples of the world are increasing in
SHAMPOOING,
excessive use of liquors and of tobacco The son. they say, is not the physical,
athletic feat of the da v caused the great number from decade to decade. They
than they once were ; they arc more mental and moral equal of his father.
est excitement. Some champion walker are increasing still more rapidly in in.
moral and more religious.
They look ever backwards for good and ' accomplished the task of walking 1,000 dividual accomplishment. Jndged from
General Banking and Exchange busi
everything strictly first class .
The projier study of mankind is man. so distorted does their vision become miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. At the the stand point of races the white is lie. ness interest paid on time deposits.
For unnumiiqred rent lines philosophers, that in looking forward they can see time this was the talk of the country. coming more and more predominant.
Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger
unaided byMIic |»ratical results of the nothing but evil.
How many men do you think there are The enlightened races are growing long, many, Sweden, and all foreign countries.
science werrfcrsmtcd the sole prerogative
C. A. BAILEY,
“Now this view is wrong ; let me cm in this country to-day who could accom er lived. The subjects of civilization are
DEALER IN
of S|*eculatin|| on the generalizing about phasize that point. It is totally wrong plish this tent? I will venture to place increasing more slowly; the barbarians
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
STU DE BA KER WAGONS
mankind Statesmen and political econ The son of to-morrow will prove a bet- the figures between 10,000 and 100,000. are gaining hut little, while savage races
OSBORNE MOWERS,
omists enacted laws and promulgated tcr man in everv way than the father of
‘ When Herbert Spencer came to this are losing. Throughout the world the
Buggies, hsy rakes, plows, and <>the
INSURE WITH
theories which covered the political and to-day. He will far surpass in the ele
average
length
of
life,
the
average
in.
country some years since he made tile
fsim machinery. Yon can save
economic side of man. Physicians, teach- ments that go to make up real man.
Claude Thayer,
money by dealing with me,
observation that the American people tellignce and the average population is
era and preachers ministered to his phys hood the grandfather of yesterday. Let were running themselves to death. He increasing from period to period. And Agent for Fireman's Fond and London
Sper’al Prices on Bnggiea ami Spring
Wagons.
ical. mental and spiritual necessities and this, too, lie emphasized, but do not let stated that he belieied that they would eier is the human race becoming better.
and Lancashire Fire Insurance
C. A. BAILEY. Tillamook, Ore.
s|«vialised each in their separate lines.
it l»c misunderstood. The world is1 eventually become crazy, so great must!
• Mamma,” said 5-vear.old Johnny,
Companies.
But each class has been a class ot spe moving «»award and upward. As men the resultant nervous strain be from
"Mr. Singleton is engaged to sister Nellie
cialists, and has dealt with one or two grow old their mentality reverts and working at the high American speed.
now, isn't he ?■'
of the myriad sides * hich the <1evel«»|»eil they appreciate more keenly the tri
fire insurance .
Our Normal Pace is Swilt.
"Why, what makes you think he is
man of today presents. And the philos umph*, the struggles. the achievements*
Mr. Spencer was wrong. He failed to ¡Johnny ?" asked his mother,
7
5. STEPHENS,
■Ulti Mt nUHISSil
ophers have gone on following in the oi their younger days. What is good
realize that we were going only at our j , " 'Cause, "replied the small observer,
foot streps oi Socrates, forming inconcln anti what is great in the past conies
SHAVING,
HAIR CUTTING,
normal pace. I would la v it down as a : "he hasn't given me any candv for a
sivc theories about the here and futile keenly back to them. With Mark An-
week and yesterday he kicked the dog." '
genernl
rule
that
people
on
the
average
t
SHAMPOOING, ETC.
j tony they arc too willing to believe that
COMPANIES.
b
theories about the hereafter.
do what they are able to do, and that | ! The boy with the freckle,! face proposed
The latter halt of the nineteenth cen the evil that men do lives after them
what they actually do is the safest and j that they forge written excuses from
Agent for North West School Sunol, Eh-ctric Baths nicely flitted up Good f°r
tury has witnessed a growing desire on while the go«xl is too often interred with
truest measure of what they can do In , their lathers and stay .way from school
persona suffering with rheumatism.
TILLAM o T i K - Xotar^ Public PP-
the part ot men to know something more [ their t»ones.
1ILLAMOOK,
OREGON
Berlin the average man walks at the rate ! today.
Building
next door to the Post office
definite about the progress that they
We Are Advancing Mentally.
ot two and a half miles per hour; in Lon
suppose that they are making.
They
“But the stores of useful knowledge don, three ; in New York, three and a
■ XRCVTOR9 NOTICE
the boy W1th flaxen carte. ‘ Mv
want t<» know where they stand; the which men are aevuninlating. the good
My father
Dr. J. w. Voue I
quarter, and in Chicago. San Francisco .spelbtoowdl!”
rfltvt of the civilization that thev are that they art doing is not buried with
Notice is hereby given that the under«igTied
S
pecialist
for
’
and Denver the latter pace is exceeded
SaymgwhKh.^p^^
">«
kefratctiox
striving to create upon themselves. Thev their. Knowledge may be translerred
AMD has been duh- appointed executor of th »Mateo*
D efects of thr E ye .
Josiah Bigg«, deceaeed, and that all pcraw*
But Mr Silencer would have found if he
have been loath to Iwlieve the dire pro-
hann< claims a<ainat «aid estate are req««««
imlefimtely from party to partv; yet no had taken thetroubfe to investigate that
present the same to me. duly verified,
Will
visit
TILLAMOOK
every
phecies and conclusions of the “little party loses, though all may gain But
three offlceofA. W. Severance i Til'nmonk < *g-
the
average
length
of
life
in
America
ex-
I
months.
7
humans.** They .fes,rel io know wbeth.,^
Oregon, within six months from the date of I«*
wr
[ U uu
cir«
first publi ation of this notice, the first pubnea-
P oktlaxd ... O bkcox
Non being on the i«th day of<>rt
belong mv ««4 ttoMButpoiat cf nM'miitr
critics
MANKIND IS GROWING them so painfully is after all a house
. cards.
BETTER.
A Wonderful New Science.
yy
Cloth
CHARLES COOPEY, CHAS. PETERSON,
S-A-ZSTŒZ OF
C. & E. Thayer
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